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I don't get why big companys are afraid of open source software (feddit.it)

submitted 1 year ago by da_g@feddit.it to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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I don't get why big companys are afraid of open source software.

I know that monetizing open source is hard but in exchange they would have 8 billion programmers ready, for free!

Even if they do like redhat , as controversial as it is right now, they would be better off than just closing the source.

I would be willing to pay to have the license to modify my own software even if I couldn't redistribute it afterwards.

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[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

In other words, Open Source is good for stuff you wouldn't be able to sell anyway. Nobody pays more for the OS that's running on their fridge. And hardly anyone cares about the software that's running on anything beside maybe their PC or their phone.

So for all of these things, Open Source is great.

But the actual product that they are trying to sell, that's not an open-source matter, otherwise you'll have cloners in no time.